Hi again, Steve~
Unfortunately, what you need to know is whether or not the lithograph
is in ?public domain.? (Which means that the copyright has lapsed, and
now the work can be used by anyone for anything.) *If* the lithograph
was made during the artists? lifetime, it?s easily within public
domain. (For information about when works go into public domain, check
out this site: http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm ; ?When U.S.
Works Pass Into The Public Domain, University of North Carolina;
foreign copyright is similar enough under these circumstances.)
However, it?s possible that during the artists? lifetime, the work was
only a single painting or print, and was, at some later time,
reprinted as a lithograph. If this reprinting was done recently, the
lithograph may still be copyrighted.
Although I believe it?s *likely* the artist mass produced the original
work (either as lithographs or as illustrations for a magazine or
book), it is *possible* the lithograph is of a more modern nature.
Therefore, to be safe, you really should contact the Christian
Brothers
Collection and request permission.
From this Google cache (which you can view for a limited time), you?ll
see that the book ?Wine And The Artist,? contains Christian Brothers
art*from* the Wine Museum of San Francisco.
://www.google.com/search?q=cache:azGdDpITOywJ:www.adinfinitumbooks.com/pi/2792.html+%22Christian+Brothers+Collection%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
(Ad Infinitum Books) In fact, all references to the Christian
Brothers Collection that I can find online are traced to the Wine
Museum of San Francisco. Therefore, you may wish to directly contact
this museum; alternatively, you could contact the publisher of the
book and request information about who to contact about reprint rights
for the print. Contacting the museum will undoubtedly be a quicker
route, and if you discover the museums doesn?t have the lithograph in
their collection, you can try the latter. The address for the Wine
Museum of San Francisco is: 633 Beach Street San Francisco, CA 94109.
Typically, when you?re granted permission to reprint something from a
museum collection, a fee is involved. This is sometimes also the case
with private collections. The fee is often surprisingly small--but the
museum or collection will also want to approve the use of the work.
Therefore, they *might* turn down your request if you want to use the
work for advertising, but approve your request if you?re writing a
book that would include the work, etc.
Good luck!
Kriswrite
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